THE STAR, THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2008

NATION

N31

BSB rocks the night away

Not even threat of a storm could stop Malaysians from partying with the Boys
By NIKI CHEONG
niki@thestar.com.my

A great show: (From left) Littrell, McLean, Carter and Dorough of the Backstreet Boys thrilling the crowd
at the Sunway Lagoon Theme Park last night. Azhar Mahfof/ The Star

PETALING JAYA: Even the possibility of a huge storm couldn't stop the
10,000 strong crowd from showing
up at Sunway Surf Beach at the
Sunway Lagoon Theme Park last
night to catch American boyband
Backstreet Boys live.
Barely an hour before the concert
was due to start, thunder and rain
threatened to dampen the atmosphere at the concert, the band's first
concert in Malaysia since the Force
of Nature Tsunami Relief Concert in
2004.
The skies are clear, and we are
here ... Backstreet's back! shouted
McLean as he thanked the crowd for
showing up.
The band members Brian Littrell,
AJ McLean, Nick Carter and Howie
Dorough had the crowd eating out
of their hands throughout the one
and a half hour concert, belting out
almost 30 songs.
The Backstreet Boys were formed

in 1993 and have so far released six

studio albums, which the crowd
were obviously familiar with, if their
shrieks and screams were anything
to go by. At times, during songs such
as I Want It That Way and Incomplete,
the band members even paused
because the crowd was singing louder than them.
The Backstreet Boys made several
costume changes throughout their
performance, but it was when they
put on their trademark fedora hat,
made popular from the music video
of their 1997 hit song As Long As You
Love Me that the crowd went wild.
This was also the first time Malaysians were seeing the band perform
live as a quartet as member Kevin
Richardson left the group last year.
The band only sang one song for
their encore but gave such a heartwarming performance that it was
enough to placate the crowd.
The Star had been the official
newspaper for the Kuala Lumpur leg
of the Backstreet Boys Unbreakable
World Tour.